On 4 December, Vintrospektiv celebrated its 2nd birthday. While I am happy with the new direction my life has taken, and ultimately with the decision to end Vintrospektiv as my main job, I couldn’t help but wonder (as I sometimes do) what I could have done differently. I still believe that there is simply not […]
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So here’s the final part of this little series. Again, see the first part for more information on its background. For my original promotions covered in the previous 4 parts, I was beginning to struggle to come up with new ideas by the end of February 2021, and since there had been a rather disappointing […]
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A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon a game box that was buried in a bookshelf. It turned out to be Emily Short’s City of Secrets, made in a tiny run and sold at the long-defunct feelies.org. I had originally ordered three copies back in 2002, two for friends to save on postage, but one […]
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On to the next promotional texts. As before, see the first part for more information on the background of this series. The Vintrospektiv Social Media Archive, Part 4: Retrogaming Trivia – The Editions (Twitter) While thinking about trivia items to post, I had the idea that it might be nice to have an overarching topic every […]
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And the story continues. See the first part for more information on the background of this series. The Vintrospektiv Social Media Archive, Part 3: Retrogaming Trivia (Twitter) At the same time I started my “curiosities” series on Instagram, in December 2020, I also launched this series, with the same mode: one post per day, except for […]
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Time for the next part. See the previous article for more information on the background of this series. The Vintrospektiv Social Media Archive, Part 2: Curiosities from My Collection – Infocom (Instagram) When I ran out of ideas for general curiosities, I continued with my Infocom collection, which had a surprising wealth of material that could […]
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At the Vintage Computing Festival Berlin on 8-9 October this year, I will give a workshop on composing on the C64 with Chris Hülsbeck’s Soundmonitor. Details to follow, but I can tell you already that I will provide a USB drive with emulators for Windows and Linux and the Soundmonitor file for everyone to follow […]
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Vintrospektiv used to be a multi-channel project (though mainly focused on videos), and so I was also active in social media. In particular, I started out with some promotional features on Instagram and Twitter (see this post for more information in German). Since both channels have been closed in the mean time, I’ve decided I […]
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A few months ago, I finally published my first book, the one that I had been talking about for almost one and a half years. So why did it take that long? As anybody who has written a book will tell you, it’s a long and tedious process, and it’s not the writing part that […]
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Nach fast zwei Jahren seit den ersten Zeilen ist nun endlich mein erstes Buch mit dem Titel 10 GOTO 20 und einem Umfang von gedruckten 130 Seiten herausgekommen. Es ist ab sofort online als eBook für 5,99 € und im Buchhandel als Druckausgabe für 11,99 € zu bestellen. Die ISBN lautet xxx-xxxxxxxxxx (eBook) bzw. xxx-xxxxxxxxxx […]
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